ASCEND
SF Bay Area chapter Community Service Event – Tax-Aid Income Tax
Preparation for 2013 Tax Season

ASCEND
invites you to give back to the community by becoming a volunteer with our
community partner, Tax-Aid during the 2013 tax season. Tax Aid is a501(c)3nonprofit
organization founded in 1988 by a coalition of accountants and lawyers. Its
mission is to provide free income tax preparation to low-income families in the
Bay Area at 27 locations. Join us for their 25th year of serving the
community!

Tax
expertise is helpful, but there are also jobs that don't require any technical
knowledge. In addition to tax preparers, we need:•Client
greeters•Bi-lingual
screeners•Computer
technicians•Foreign
language translators

Volunteers must attend 1 two-hour tax
update training class in San Francisco, Mountain View, San Jose or San Rafael
(with 2 hours CPE credits) and
1 computer lab training (at Golden Gate University) at 536 Mission St. in SF.
Must volunteer for a minimum of two sessions.
Most Tax-Aid volunteers work about 8-12 hours over a few weeks.

ASCEND selected
locations with sizable Asian populations that are easily accessible for our
members in San Francisco, Peninsula, East Bay, North Bay and South Bay to
volunteer at. Cantonese and Mandarin translators are needed in San Francisco
and Oakland; Vietnamese translators are needed at Glide Memorial and Tenderloin
Community School; Spanish translators are needed in Oakland, San Mateo, Redwood
City and San Rafael.

Date/Time:
Saturdays, from February - April 2013; various time periods

To
Register: Register online by
going to this link:www.register.tax-aid.org/volunteer/?Refresh=1. We ask that you sign up for a minimum of two sessions and you must
sign up fora 2 mandatory training classes listed online.
Please put your company/ASCEND as the company organization when you
register so that we can track the number of ASCEND volunteers.

Please RSVP to Mary
Geong at mmgeong@aol.com after
you have signed up and indicate which training
session and location you plan to volunteer.